THE ORB

No Sounds are Out of Bounds (Cook­ing Vinyl) ELEC­TRON­ICA

This is the chill-out kings’ 15th al­bum in 30 years, and while many of their re­cent re­leases would have passed even old fans by, there’s some­thing es­pe­cially com­pelling about this, a throw­back to their early days. As the ti­tle sug­gests, any­thing goes when it comes to sound and while the ap­proach feels scat­ter­gun here, there are sev­eral com­mend­ably strong efforts, not least the propul­sive anti-war ‘Wolf­bane’.